His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and… — Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late... — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
